Free Money?

Somtimes I stand on top of hills to plan how to best convert Silkeborg. 

It's been a pretty good week, except all our investigators are playing hard to get. One of them gave us the excuse that he was gone for the weekend learning how to drive tanks for the Danish homeland defense! Guess he has a valid reason haha :) We only taught lessons this week to new investigators! Normally that's hard to do... We did find some pretty cool people though. A man named Angelo from the states who has met with missionaries a lot and is very well versed on the Bible is looking forward to talking with us! It's hard because the church here is in Danish and although he speaks a bit of Danish it's hard for him to get a lot out of the meetigns. Also we foudn a guy named Pierre who comes from the Congo. Danish is his 5th language so it's very basic teaching we're trying to do right now. He has problems coming to church because of bus problems and the fact that it's in Danish as well... the struggle is real. The gospel would help his family so much though! His little kids are way too funny. 

We went to a members birthday 60th birthday party this week. While we were feasting on the endless supply of amazing Danish food our Branch's Relief Society president gave us an envelope and told us to be careful because it had a lot of money in it... We were very curious and opened it right when we got home. There was eighty American dollars inside and a bunch of envelopes! We were really confused and excited cause we had a ton of money, but we figured out that this wasn't just a random letter with money, it was a ton of referals! A missionary couple that used to serve here gave us the address of 13 people they used to have contact with and told us that we should buy them each a flower and take them a letter they provided to see if they were still open to learning about the gospel! Talk about unexpected blessings! We got to work contacting all these people and realized that for the most part they are all old and not very itnerested anymore, but there was one couple that invited us in and want to have us back for dinner sometime. We shared a message about families and showed them familysearch.org which seemed to catch their interest. If nothing else that made all the work worth it. I'm getting used to appreciating the good we can do just by sharing uplifting thoughts even if it doesn't lead to total conversion. We still have one more person to contact today from the list so wish us luck!

Here's us walking down the street loaded with flowers...

Oh! Funny story of the week. So we were walking down the road after teaching a lesson to Pierre and we saw a middle aged man and his young son walkign toward us. The guy came at a weird angle straight at us and was about to run into my companion. All of a sudden he just leans forward and screams as loud as he can straight into Elder Lawless's face. We tensed up and Elder Lawless was ready to hit the guy, but he just smiled. I aksed what he wanted and he mentioned something about Elder Lawless's arms at the ready and laughed and kept walking away with his son. What the?!?! We were both too confused to do much so I just told him to have a nice day and we kept walking... Gave me a nice adrenaline rush haha. I was worried Elder Lawless was just going to pop the guy, and to be honest we probably should have done something more about it but we were both had no idea what had just happened so we just let him walk away. Weird to think he pulled that stunt right in front of his son. 

It's been really really foggy the past couple days.

I don't remember what the sun looks like. 

I've been feeling kind of stuck lately. I want something to happen! We've been in the same struggle trying to get the same people to church for what seems like forever now and it just isn't happening. With such a big message sometimes it feels like the results should be bigger as well. I can at least see the results in myself though. I'll be honest, I had no clue what I believed or what the heck this church really even was before I came out here, but now I have a much better understanding of what it means to be a member of Christs church and how my commitment to it will help my future more than anything else! So yeah. That's my schpeel (how in the world is that word spelled?) for the week.

Seriously miss all of you! 

-Ældste Durrant

Borups Alle 128 1.tv

2000 Frederiksberg

Denmark